Word: fours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Middle-Income Munson's homemaker sounds like the brat-of-the-year! A presumably healthy 27-year-old woman who needs a mother's helper four mornings a week to care for only two babies; who can't make an average dress for under $25 and who needs a $45 dinner party once a week, is not a representative sample of any Illinois homemakers I know. My neighborhood had a healthy howl over that...
...logical choice. A graduate of Harvard College and Washington University Medical School (cum laude), Knowles is a forward-looking doctor-administrator who became general director of Massachusetts General Hospital seven years ago at age 36. His reputation in the public health field is excellent. He has written four books-one of them considered a classic in pulmonary physiology-and teaches at Harvard Medical School...
...answer is that the table grape, Vitis vinifera, has become the symbol of the four-year-old strike of California's predominantly Mexican-American farm workers. For more than a year now, table grapes have been the object of a national boycott that has won the sympathy and support of many Americans ?and the ire of many others. The strike is widely known as la causa, which has come to represent not only a protest against working conditions among California grape pickers but the wider aspirations of the nation's Mexican-American minority as well. La causa's magnetic...
Guzman, who helped carry out a four-year Ford Foundation study of Mexican Americans, warns that the barrio is potentially as explosive as the black ghetto. He argues for a new pluralism in the U.S. that means something other than forcing minorities into the established Anglo-Saxon mold; each group should be free to develop its own culture while contributing to the whole...
...strike vote for higher wages. Everyone pledged not to go to work, but just to make sure that no one did, Chavez and Dolores Huerta, his tiny, tough assistant, made the rounds early on the strike's first morning. Mrs. Huerta saw a light in one house where four of the workers lived. She reminded them of their pledge, but they had changed their minds. Mrs. Huerta moved her truck so that it blocked their driveway and put the key in her purse. The incident illustrated the charge that Chavez and his aides sometimes coerce those who would rather work...